The Merilyn Show
Not your typical leadership podcast. What does it really mean to lead your world in an age of collapse, awakening, and reinvention? Merilyn speaks with thinkers, creatives and changemakers who are dismantling the old rules of business, success, power, and self. These aren’t celebrity interviews. These are legacy conversations - redefining leadership for the Age of Integrity. Real talk. Deep insight. Sharp edges. For those creating what doesn’t yet exist. Hosted by Merilyn Wilson Beretta, founder of the Tall Poppy Society, Lead Your World and WowArchetypes. Instagram: @merilyn Website: merilyn.com
Episodes
What happens when a legal scholar rides shotgun with police—and builds trust with sex workers—on the streets of Johannesburg?
Professor India Thusi spent nearly two years embedded in both worlds. The result? A radical inside look at how policing really works—and why the criminalisation of sex work does more harm than good.
In this episode, she shares the story of being detained during her research, the power dynamics it exposed, and ...
Why did I spend $1000 on tickets to see Coldplay, even though I’d never even purchased an album of theirs before the show?
A reflection about how Coldplay, Chanel, Wine Tasting and the movie industry can set us free in marketing.
It's about the art of building a brand that moves people.
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Meet the 'Mary Poppins of Prosperity'! Introducing Patricia Lohan - a Feng Shui expert, award winning author and entrepreneur living her absolute dream life between Bali, Greece, New York and Ireland.
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What a refreshing conversation. Yes we chatted about coaching, but we went deep, touching many issues the world is battling with right now. This was a chat about hope. Lee Chaix McDonough is a psychotherapist who created an organisation to support coaches, intuitives and healing professionals in business skills.
coachwithclarity.com
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How can burnout be Wow? You are about to find out. Jess Stuart is an international speaker, coach and author of five personal development books specialising in mindset, performance and women in leadership.
LinkedIn: jessstuart
Website: jessstuart.co.nz
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This chat was a turn-on. Lauren is an award-winning sexologist, business mentor and speaking coach to women in leadership who want to activate their deep power and pleasure so they can speak, lead and express with confidence and magnetism.
Website: laurenwhite.com.au
Instagram: laurenwhiteau
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Introducing Dr Natasha Davison, a high performance coach, psychologist and bestselling author. A very real chat about her vulnerability in her industry and making the change in her career.
Website: drnatashadavison.com.au
Facebook: natasha.davison
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A hilarious chat that goes from how neurodivergent brains can be productive, to what dust is actually made of, to burnout... to gaming. Leonie Dawson is a creative, multi-passionate, multi-award winning entrepreneur and author who has made squillions whilst only working 10 hours a week. And our crazy chat about ibis's, mice, nature and pushing up the daisies at the end just must be heard!
Website: leoniedawson.com
"Can we find a better relationship with this feeling of time? Can we actually slow time down?" - Kerry Shamblin.
Kerry's website: planetaryinfluence.com.
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“We came here for the contrast. On a spiritual level… it’s the full life experience” - Melanie Weller
Instagram: @embodyyourstar
Website: melanieweller.com
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"We use our imagination to stress us out, or make us sad more often than we do to make us actually in-the-now-moment genuinely happy." - Bella Lively
Instagram: @bellalivelyworld
Website: bellalively.com
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“I have recreated myself in the 50’s, but I like to think that this was the person I always was, but came back to” - Caroline Labouchere
Website: carolinelabouchere
Instagram: @carolinelabouchere
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“I’ve had to learn how to say no. No doesn’t mean no-never, but no-now!" - Heather Steinker
Website: chaosncookies.com
Instagram: @chaosncookies
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“I wish the women of the world could see just how sacred their duty is as the wombs of our ideas, as the wombs of our energy, as the wombs of our future… and honouring the gifts that are uniquely, innately yours as divine goddess in form.” Daniel Mangena
Website: dreamwithdan
Instagram: @danielmangena.official
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"When women lead in their fire and their power, and their beauty… that creates a lot of change for the heartbreaking things in the world”. Jaclyn Shaw
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"I'm a better wife, mother and person because I'm fulfilling that need within me to be creative. " Jo Cooke.
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"Anxiety is now a superpower for me". Carina Sunding
Website: makeithappen.se
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"It's a human experience to feel both wow and woe." Merilyn Wilson Beretta
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“Nature doesn’t rush and she always gets everything done on time.” Susy Nana
Susy's website - susynana.com
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A big change has happened.
A global evolution you may not know about, but definitely have felt.
It challenges what we’ve been told to believe all our lives and it’s igniting a quiet uprising.
That change…is the move from the Age of Success to the Age of Integrity*.
And a move from old power to New Power.
Phrases like “just do it”, “trust the process" and “skyrocket to success” aren’t landing anymore?
This language o...
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